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Fashion

100 Shoes

Koda Harold, Parker Sarah Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780300172409, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2011
232 pp., 17.8x25.4 cm, 16 black&white illus., 194 colour illus.

In a brilliant follow-up to "100 Dresses", published in 2010, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum once again opens the vaults of its renowned permanent collection to introduce readers to the rich diversity of shoes within its holdings. T...

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History of Art

Joys of Collecting

Getty J. Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781606060872, Getty Publications, September 2011
80 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.

This title offers an insightful and revealing personal account of one man's consuming passion for collecting. In 1965, shortly after founding his namesake museum in Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty penned reminiscence about "the romance and zest – t...

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Photography

Julius Schulman's Los Angeles

Alexander Christopher James

ISBN: PB: 9781606060797, Getty Publications, September 2011
72 pp., 16.6x13.5 cm, 60 duotone photos

This title presents a pictorial history of the "City of the Future" throughout the 20th century. The celebrated architectural photographer Julius Shulman (1910-2009) is one of the few image makers to have documented, as well as witnessed, nearly an e...

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History of Art

Hokusai Mountains and Water, Flowers and Birds

Forrer Matthi

ISBN: PB: 9783791346144, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
96 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Now available again, this delightful selection of prints depicting nineteenth century Japan's natural beauty is a colorful introduction to the country's most beloved artist. The Japanese artist Hokusai spent the second half of his life sketching and...

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History of Art

American Painters on Technique The Colonial Period to 1860

Mayer Lance, Myers Gay

ISBN: HB: 9781606060773, Getty Publications, September 2011
256 pp., 23.7x16.1 cm, 19 colour illus.

This title offers an original survey on Colonial artists' materials and techniques. This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely anonymous part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painter...

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History of Art

Finger A Handbook

Trumble Angus

ISBN: PB: 9780300179071, Yale University Press, September 2011
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

<p>In this collision between art and science, history and pop culture, the acclaimed art historian Angus Trumble examines the finger from every possible angle. His inquiries into its representation in art take us from Buddhist statues in Kyoto to the...

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History of Art

Miraculous Bouquets Flower and Fruit Paintings by Jan Van Huysum

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060902, Getty Publications, September 2011
48 pp., 16.3x12.1 cm, 24 colour illus.

Precisely rendered to dazzle the eye with their botanical accuracy, the sumptuous arrays of fruit and flowers by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum (1682-1749) were among the most avidly collected paintings of the 18th century. The arrangements were painst...

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History of Art

Display and Art History The Dusseldorf Gallery and its Catalogue

Gaehtgens Thomas W., Marchesano Louis

ISBN: PB: 9781606060926, Getty Publications, September 2011
104 pp., 27x19.7 cm, 70 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the first modern art catalogue, its creation and its legacy. This richly illustrated book examines the making of the first modern catalogue – La galerie electorale de Dusseldorff. Published in 1778, the r...

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History of Art

Masters of Art

Masters of Art Turner

Crepaldi Gabriele

ISBN: PB: 9783791346212, Prestel Publishing, September 2011
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Turner makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as "the painter of light". The use of...

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Posters

Design

Windows on the War Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945

Kort Zegers Peter, Druick Douglas W., Akinsha Konstantin, Bird Robert, Bugajski Jill, Jolles Adam

ISBN: HB: 9780300170238, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2011
400 pp., 32.4x24.8 cm, 300 colour images, 140 black&white illus.

"Windows on the War" is a groundbreaking publication – the first in English to focus on posters designed by the Soviet Union's "TASS" news agency to bolster support for the Soviet war effort. "TASS" posters were created by a large collective of Sovie...

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